Ian Steele Email & Phone Number

East Coast

Lakeland, Fl

Lead Pre-Sales SA in charge of closing large and complex cloud services deals through the South East. Subject matter expert in a number of areas including VMware SDDC and Public Cloud architectures.

Oldsmar, Fl

• Generated over $5 million in services and hardware revenue with hundreds of validated datacenter & cloud designs; • Worked with sales and delivery teams to create and deliver critical IT initiatives to meet customer requirements;• Created complex scopes of work for hundreds of customers;• Led the Azure Cloud product development project;• Maintained Vology solutions center featuring hyper-converged and private cloud infrastructure.

• Migrated critical applications and infrastructure to AWS using scalable and elastic methodologies;• Led Tier 3 server and network engineering teams;• Provided vision and guidance to facilitate Times’ migration to 21st century technologies;• Maintained PCI compliancy through risk mitigation and interaction with Trustwave;• Helped forecast Capex and Opex spending and future plan projects;• Served as I.T. department Business Analyst to discover and plan I.T.-specific cloud initiatives.

• Designed and deployed the entire IT infrastructure at the Tampa Bay Times forum, including: Cisco multi-tiered network, SAN, virtual servers, wireless, cellular and telecommunications;• Consolidated datacenter into a 100% virtualized environment using VMware and Cisco UCS in order to save on OPEX costs;• Protected critical business assets by developing private and public cloud architectures for offsite disaster recovery and business continuity;• Designed high density wireless network to enhance the fan experience and drive mobile applications and ticket / concession sales;• Acted as the building IT consultant for the design and execution of the 2012 Republican National Convention.

● Introduced Cisco networking into the datacenter which dealt with speed and redundancy● issues.● Developed company data center at headquarters.● Maintained customer networks and consulted on network design and security enhancements.● Increased margins by developing unique technical products and solutions for customers.our bottom line;

Orlando, Florida

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Technology

Studied advanced I.T. applications, networks and systems.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General